Welcome to Seeking Kali. Born of a discussion of myth and archetype, the manifestations of Kali are many. She is mother, she is goddess in all her glory, she devours time as a symbol of dissolution and destruction. Kali destroys ignorance and restores order.
This year the Artist Collective Seeking Kali is sponsoring an artist call for work in all media concerning the myth of MEDUSA.

Seeking Kali is presently conceived of as an online exhibition of artist works based on interpretations of the Hindu Goddess Kali.

The Inspiration Behind Seeking Kali:During the winter of 2010 artists Ria Vanden Eynde, Susan Shulmanand William Evertson began an online discussion of archetype and myth. The discussion began by talking about the many manifestationsof Kali. She is mother, she is goddess in all her glory, she devours time as a symbol of dissolution and destruction. Kali destroys ignorance born of Ego. She restores the world to balance.

Ria, Susan and William are currently working on an edition of handmade books based on their interpretations of Kali manifestations. We hope to publish by Spring of 2011.

Why We are Expanding This Project:As we began to share our images and progress on our blogs and Facebookwe discovered, in wonderful synchronicity, several artists shared theirimages of Kali with us. We suspect that if we enlarge our vision from making one simple portfolio to making an artist call the possibilities of our collective efforts will result in amazing and intriguing ideas and images.In fact we hope that, although we are beginning with 2D constraints, this can develop an inter-media aspect involving performance, music, dance and video.

How to submit:1. We would be honored to exhibit jpegs of your original work on ourSeeking Kali blog. The jpeg may be submitted via email to:2. Please submit your work as a jpeg. Note: for best online viewing we recommend that your submission be no wider than 900 pixels and about 300k.3. Please include you name as you wish it to appear and URL if you wish us to link to your website or blog.4. The original remains with you. All copyright remains with you. (Although by submitting you are granting permission for the work to be displayed by Seeking Kali.)5. Your original can be in any medium including video. Please contact us by email for embedding your video. If you are submitting poetry that requiresformatting, again, please contact us by email and we will attempt to formatwithin the blogs limitations.6. Deadline for the online submissions is December 31, 2010. Extended to January 15, 2011. This call is officially at an end. We are still sharing art concerning Kali on our Seeking Kali Facebook group. Feel free to post directly to our wall.7. Please use common sense and cultural respect.

Other considerations:While there are no restrictions as to the content of your submission,we do ask that you remain mindful that as you consider Kali, her manifestations and as archetypal source, please remember that sheremains revered and worshiped by many. Practitioners remind us that her wrath is directed at ego and injustice.

The Second Horizon of Seeking Kali is envisioned as a book of images by collaborators on the blog. At present this is under development but would either take the form of an artist book or a book produced with an online publisher.

Further details will be published on the blog as they are available.

If you would like your work considered for this part of the collaboration please let us know in your online email submission. We can then email youdirectly as details are worked through.

The Third Horizon of Seeking Kali is in the pre-planning stage but will likely consist of exhibits of the original works, books, editions, multimedia and performance.

Again, further details will be published on the blog as they become available.

A Final Word – Many of you reading this call are friends from A Book About Death as well as some of its offshoots such as Abalcabal and various mail art calls. Just as Kali is depicted with multiple arms we are looking to the wonderful arms and talents of our many friends to spread the word and help us build this project as an additional forum to help us reveal the multifaceted manifestations of creativitythat Kali inspires in us all.

Recap:

Send jpegs to:

jpeg size no wider than 900 pixels

keep file size small 300 - 400k
Don't forget your name, site/blog you want us to link to and name of the piece you're sending.

Indicate by email if you want to be on our mailing for a future print collaboration.

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